Games like Hardware Tycoon
If Hardware Tycoon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Business Manager, Ranchbound and Shane's Trains — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Hardware Tycoon: From 1986 to 2026, design and engineer the world's most advanced CPUs. Run your own fabs or manufacture for rivals. Research groundbreaking tech, manage your team, buy and build offices, and dominate the market through decades of cutthroat competition. Become the ultimate hardware tycoon.
Players who liked Hardware Tycoon also play
Steam players who put hours into Hardware Tycoon also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Business Manager
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Top pick for Hardware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hardware Tycoon.
Create and run your own business, and try climb to the top of the markets by creating leading products and dominating the competition.
Ranchbound
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Second-strongest match for Hardware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hardware Tycoon.
Raise cattle, develop your ranch, hire cowboys, buy land, and invest in local businesses in a real-time economic strategy with survival challenges.
Shane's Trains
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Third-strongest match for Hardware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hardware Tycoon.
Build and manage your own railway empire. Buy trains, create services, expand the network, and grow from a single branch line. Map your own routes, or play across the real UK rail network and beyond.
Stakeholder Game
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Ranked #4 for Hardware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hardware Tycoon.
Investment business simulation game. Become the richest billionaire ever! Build your financial empire out of merged companies and increase your capital.
Super Movie Tycoon
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Ranked #5 for Hardware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hardware Tycoon.
Become a movie mogul in Super Movie Tycoon! From script to screen, build your dream team and create blockbusters to conquer Hollywood!
From Embers
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Ranked #6 for Hardware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hardware Tycoon.
A survival city-builder where every villager has a name, a family, and a eulogy. Build their civilization through four ages, brutal winters, and monster raids — then prestige and let their legacy echo into your next run.
Timber
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Ranked #7 for Hardware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hardware Tycoon.
Build and manage your industrial empire unlike ever before. Dive into Timber: where strategic resource management meets the forest.
Shop Tycoon: Prepare your wallet
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Ranked #8 for Hardware Tycoon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hardware Tycoon.
Shop Tycoon is a store simulator. Create a supermarket, sex shop, games store or a store with good Polish vodka. Place your logo, hire employees, expand your car fleet, build offices and parking lots, create a chain of stores and more!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hardware Tycoon at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~54% under Hardware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Tycoon.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~54% under Hardware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Hardware Tycoon.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~42% under Hardware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hardware Tycoon.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
How to Fish
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Priced ~54% under Hardware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Tycoon.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~54% under Hardware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hardware Tycoon.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
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Priced ~54% under Hardware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Hardware Tycoon.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~91% under Hardware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hardware Tycoon.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
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Priced ~54% under Hardware Tycoon on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Hardware Tycoon.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Tycoon.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation and Casual with Hardware Tycoon.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
No Results Found
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Tycoon.
Search, dig deeper, and search again. Can you reach the end of the truth?
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hardware Tycoon.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hardware Tycoon.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Handshakes
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Casual with Hardware Tycoon.
Take your brain for a walk in Handshakes, a simple yet tricksy sokoban puzzle game. Guide two hands through puzzles designed to stump, not frustrate, so that they may achieve their dream of a warm, firm handshake.
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Hardware Tycoon.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Hardware Tycoon.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
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Frequently asked about Hardware Tycoon
- How much does Hardware Tycoon cost?
- Hardware Tycoon is listed on Steam at 10.79 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hardware Tycoon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hardware Tycoon are Business Manager, Ranchbound, Shane's Trains.
- Who developed Hardware Tycoon?
- Hardware Tycoon was developed by NordCode.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Hardware Tycoon.
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